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The Unwelcome Guest.jpg
'I - er - am afraid I cannot offer you a seat. I am entertaining persons of - er - ah - importance. You can find a chair for yourself somewhere outside. Below is printed the explanation.'

[Image: The Primrose League has issued a manifesto stating…

The Polling Station.jpg
[Image: In the forefront a Mother tends to her child, flanked by a group of professional and graduate women including a nurse and mayor depicted as valued members of society but denied the vote and, therefore, excluded from the Polling Station.…

McKenna's Cat Bill.jpg
McKenna's Cat "Bill."

"What cat could keep up with this?"

[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…

antisuffsociety.jpg
The A.S.S. - " 'Out of date and a bad fit?' Impossible Madam! I assure you it must suit you, for I have made it exactly after your grandmother's pattern."

[Image: 'The Anti-Suffrage Society As Dressmaker', produced by the Suffrage Atelier, as…

The Woman Suffrage Bill.jpg
180
City and Town
Councils
Have
Petitioned
Government
To Give
Facilities
For Passing
The
Woman Suffrage
– Bill –

[Image: The postcard refers to the petitioning of government by 180 city and town councils in support of the Conciliation…

The Vote Girl.jpg
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE

CONCILIATION BILL

I want the vote, and I mean to have the
Vote, thats the sort of girl I am _

[Image: Pro-suffrage propaganda postcard captioned 'The Vote Girl'. The postcard refers to suffrage determination to get the…

H5.jpg
WIFE: "Sir, can you help me, my husband earns 30/- a week and only gives me 5/- for food for myself and children." LAW: "I cannot help you my good woman, you husband need only keep you alive, that is one of the laws of England."

The Closed Doors.jpg
THE CLOSED DOORS

The Mistress: "I cannot pay the tax to keep you when you are ill."

The Doctor: "You are not fit to work, but you are not ill enough to be admitted here."

The Servants: "We have no homes, what are we to do with only 7/6 a…

What May Happen.jpg
WHAT MAY HAPPEN

TAKE IT AWAY, MY BOY! I'VE NOT BEEN
CONSULTED IN THE MAKING OF THIS
PIE, & IT'S A PRESENT I MUST PAY FOR
I WON T ACCEPT IT!

SERVANTS TAX
L GEORGE
AND CO

What a Woman May Be.jpg
What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote
What a Man may have been, & yet not lose the Vote

MAYOR
NURSE
MOTHER
DOCTOR or TEACHER
FACTORY HAND

CONVICT
LUNATIC
Proprietor of white Slaves
DRUNKARD
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